South Asia - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in South Asia was 7,645,874 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7,645,874 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1,157,277 in 1970.

Definition: Secondary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1970 1,157,277
1971 1,187,572
1972 1,255,539
1973 1,319,121
1974 1,353,875
1975 1,392,373
1976 1,408,593
1977 1,441,705
1978 1,474,952
1979 1,525,684
1980 1,585,868
1981 1,641,149
1982 1,711,172
1983 1,821,956
1984 1,902,756
1985 1,952,245
1986 2,010,499
1987 2,023,969
1988 2,043,550
1989 2,068,803
1990 2,197,424
1991 2,343,193
1992 2,491,111
1993 2,606,545
1994 2,656,791
1995 2,673,241
1996 2,706,039
1997 2,755,356
1998 2,735,777
1999 2,686,532
2000 2,812,651
2001 2,881,208
2002 3,114,537
2003 3,300,448
2004 3,419,731
2005 3,799,119
2006 3,944,852
2007 4,277,014
2008 4,689,618
2009 4,957,444
2010 5,271,925
2011 5,457,347
2012 5,789,809
2013 5,085,339
2014 5,343,663
2015 5,424,557
2016 6,023,034
2017 6,194,015
2018 6,152,475
2019 7,645,874

Development Relevance: Women teachers are important as they serve as role models to girls and help to attract and retain girls in school.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Teachers refer to persons employed full-time or part-time in an official capacity to guide and direct the learning experience of pupils and students, irrespective of their qualifications or the delivery mechanism, i.e. face-to-face and/or at a distance. This definition excludes educational personnel who have no active teaching duties (e.g. headmasters, headmistresses or principals who do not teach) or who work occasionally or in a voluntary capacity in educational institutions. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Inputs